RE: Man's morality
December 10, 2013 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2013 at 2:41 pm by I am God.)
(December 9, 2013 at 11:34 am)Drich Wrote: I am not dodging anything. I am simply establishing a base line. There can not be a productive discussion if we do not both start out on the same page.
Is that another way of saying no one can see it correctly unless they see it your way? That is a typical Christian view point.
Quote:The plan of salvation. (The birth, death, burial, and resurection of Christ, for the forgiveness of sin.)
But you have no evidence that can support any of these elements as you believe them. So your baseline is supposition and conjecture at best. That's hardly a place to establish concrete parameters for something as absolute as "Righteousness" the state of being perfectly and infinitely Just. You're basing it all on the ramblings of people who's identity you can't even validate, who's accounts contradict one another even though they were written one after the other, people who were not eye witnesses to what they are writing about, and have been proven to have written errors in texts that claim to be inerrant. Is this really your idea of a baseline?
Quote:Quid pro quo clarice, quid pro quo.. Now answer my question.
Morality is the principles or ideas of right and wrong, good and evil, as agreed upon by a specific culture. For example, we feel as a culture, it is immoral to impregnate a minor child. Yahweh (your God) didn't seem to think so. Nor did any of the biblical heroes that had children. As for the people... that was their culture and taking a wife the age of 12 or 13 was common. But shouldn't Yahweh be more moral than that? Or would you say it's Ok to impregnate children? Or are you going to present the age old Christian cop out that anything God does is right... just because he's God? A God for which we've already established that your "baseline" is a little sketchy. Such childish arguments would only lend less credence to anything you have to say. Jesus himself said it was better to have a mill stone hung from your neck and be cast into the sea rather than to harm a child. Seems he didn't mind too much when he was knocking up his own mother in the form of Yahweh... that is if you believe in the trinity of course.